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Psycho
BD - Hailed as one of the
most influential suspense movies of its time, Alfred Hitchcock’s
Psycho had a profound effect on how future filmmakers
made movies and shaped audience expectations for generations to
come. Turbine Blu-ray Release
Date: January 31st, 2019
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
BD - Using correspondences
and texts written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and read by his
wife, Anna Magdalena, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle
Huillet have crafted one of the most precise, rewarding biopics
ever put to screen. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach’s
intense emotional pull can be understood by its status as a
musical film in the most thorough sense: its
performances—extended sequences set within the very spaces once
occupied by Bach himself, as trained performers wear and play
materials accurate to the period—are immense, bringing us closer
to the sound than was ever thought possible.
Blu-ray Release Date: February
16th, 2019
Stand-In (1937)
BD - Humphrey Bogart… as a
film producer cradling an ever-present Scottish Terrier? Don’t
let the dog fool you as the famed tough guy also shows his flair
for comedy in Stand-In (1937), a riotous, lacerating satire on
the motion picture industry. Blu-ray
Release Date: February 16th, 2019
Burning
BD - South Korean
director/co-writer Lee Chang-dong's unconventional thriller is
loosely based on Haruki Murakami's 1992 short story "Barn
Burning." Ah-in Yoo stars as Jongsu, a poor young man who
falls in love with a beautiful young dancer named Haemi Jong-seo
Jun. He becomes angry and insecure when she becomes romantically
entangled with Ben (Steven Yeun), an eccentric young millionaire
who claims to be occasionally impelled to burn greenhouses.
Blu-ray Release Date: March 5th,
2019
De Palma & De Niro: The Early Films
BD - Brought together for
the first time and each newly restored by Arrow Films especially
for this release these three films offer a fascinating insight
into the early careers of two American cinema s major talents.
Blu-ray Release Date: December
11th, 2018
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
BD - When a Satanist biker
is killed by a gang of Hells Angels, an evil spirit he was
summoning possesses his old Norton Commando motorcycle. So, when
unsuspecting local courier Nick "Noddy" Oddie becomes the bike's
new owner, little does he know that it runs on blood and has a
habit for killing Hells Angels and anyone else who gets in its
way. Blu-ray Release Date:
October 23rd, 2018
Green Inferno
BD - Whilst Deodato's
original benchmark critiqued the mondo film pseudo-documentary
phenomenon, partly instigated by cinematographer and director
Antonio Climati, here the focus turns to satirizing the
hypocrisy and complexity of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST itself!
Blu-ray Release Date: March 11th,
2019
Blue Movie
BD - BLUE MOVIE was
the most controversial and talked about Dutch film upon
theatrical release - a sensation that brought millions of
visitors to cinemas. Produced by Pim de la Parra, and directed
by his partner Wim Verstappen, BLUE MOVIE was a
breakthrough commercial hit for their company Scorpio Films -
and the start of the Golden Years of Dutch cinema, also known as
the "Dutch Sex Wave." Blu-ray
Release Date: February 12th, 2019
Good Times
BD - Pop singers Sonny and
Cher are featured in this fluffy film that chronicles the
popular duo's ideas for the film in which they are to make their
cinematic debut. Much of the story centers around Sonny's movie
fantasies as he tries to convince the studio head to use a more
interesting script than the one he wants to present.
Blu-ray Release Date: September
25th, 2018
Sword of Sherwood Forest
BD - Having portrayed Robin
Hood on TV for five years, Richard Greene reprises the role in
Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest. This time, Robin does a
little undercover work to determine the wicked machinations of
the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Hammer stalwart Peter
Cushing). Our Hero and the Merrie Men do their best to foil a
plot to kill the Archbishop of Canterbury (Jack Gwillim.)
Blu-ray Release Date: December 4th,
2019
The Iceman Cometh
BD - In the faded light of
Harry Hope's 1912 skid row bar, a group of fallen men, like
ghosts haunting the wreckage of their own lives, await the
annual arrival of Hickey (Lee Marvin). This year, however, the
charismatic salesman brings not the usual rounds of drinks and
slaps on the back, but an unwelcome message of sobriety.
Hollywood legends Fredric March and Robert Ryan performed
alongside relative newcomer Jeff Bridges in a brilliant
cinematic experiment that captured the existential dread of
O'Neill's play, the capstone of which is Marvin's haunting
suggestion of the madman that hides beneath Hickey's ribald,
garrulous exterior. Blu-ray
Release Date: March 26th, 2019
Party Line
BD - Brother and sister Seth
and Stacy live a secluded life in their family's beautiful
Beverly Hills mansion. But these upper class siblings share a
dark and violent hobby of using sexually driven 'party lines' to
meet and lure lustful strangers into a deadly ménage à trois,
the climax of which is a razor slash to the throat!
Blu-ray Release Date: February
26th, 2019
Laura
BD - The sleekest of noirs, the chicest of
murders, and deliciously twisted--the detective is a
necrophiliac, two of the title character's suitors seem gay, and
the Laura all the men are vying for is a corpse with no face.
Indeed LAURA, goes the genre one further by taking apart the
conventions, then putting them back together, and diving
wholeheartedly into them for the finale--a cocktail party
denouement to name the killer. Masters of Cinema
Blu-ray Release Date: January 14th,
2019
D.O.A. (1988)
BD - This updated version
has Dennis Quaid, an actor with the spark and intelligence to
carry off just about anything, as Dexter Cornell - English
professor, blocked novelist, murder victim. Rocky Morton and
Annabel Jankel, who directed ''D.O.A.,'' are the flashy,
innovative creators of Max Headroom. Here they aim for a stylish
mix of the 40's and 80's, beginning with a black and white
homage to the older film, in which Mr. Quaid stumbles into a
police station to report his own murder. Kino
Blu-ray Release date: October 30th,
2018
Sink the Bismarck
BD - Sink the Bismarck
is a faithful retelling of the British Navy’s attempts to
debilitate the German mega-battleship Bismarck. Based on C.S.
Forester’s book and directed by Lewis Gilbert (of James Bond
film fame) the real-life naval battle is detailed and
fascinating as it delves deep into the successes and failures of
one small triumph of the war. We are treated to exposure of
massive amounts of information leaving character development to
take a backseat. Eureka Blu-ray
Release Date: March 11th, 2019
Far From Heaven
BD - Maverick director Todd
Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood
melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker
(Julianne Moore) and her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) are a
seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban
neighborhood in Hartford, CT in 1957, Cathy and Frank have a
beautiful home and two happy, healthy children, while Frank
pursues a successful career in sales and Cathy cares for the
home. Blu-ray Release Date:
March 19th, 2019
Walkabout
BD - A young sister and
brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must
learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual
comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Along
the way, they meet a young aborigine on his “walkabout,”
a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into
manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. Walkabout is a
thrilling adventure as well as a provocative rumination on time
and civilization. Umbrella Blu-ray
Release Date: March, 2019
Jivaro 3D
BD - In this adventure, four
explorers search for a vast treasure in the Amazon jungle. One
of the explorers is a woman who got involved after she traveled
from California to marry her fiance whom she hasn't seen in two
years. Another man tries to convince her that her fiancé has
become an alcoholic idealist obsessed with finding gold in the
jungle. Blu-ray Release Date:
March 26th, 2019
An Angel at My Table
BD - The true story of one
of our century's most gifted writers, An Angel At My Table
chronicles the life and extraordinary time of Janet Frame
(portrayed by award-winner, Kerry Fox). Born in the 1920s,
Janet's early years of fairy tales and schoolgirl pranks were
tempered by family tragedy. She retained her beloved books and
began to write poetry and short stories. Umbrella
Blu-ray Release Date: February 2019
Dawson City - Frozen Time
BD - Named as one of the
best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson
City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history
of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating
from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost
beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story
they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary
links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of
the modern age. Second Run Blu-ray
Release date: February 19th, 2019
The Horse Thief
BD - When he made this bold
CinemaScope feature with a Tibetan setting 20-odd years ago, the
director—-for me, the best and most important of all the “fifth
generation” Chinese filmmakers who entered the Beijing Film
Academy after the end of the Cultural Revolution and began to
have access to a wide range of films from abroad—said he’d made
it for the 21st century. Blu-ray
Release Date: February 15th, 2019
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
BD - Sparkling, risqué and
delightful, WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? is a bright,
knowing satire of Madison Avenue, television and the cult of the
movie star! Tony Randall plays Rockwell P. Hunter, an adman
trying to claw his way to the top. Jayne Mansfield plays Rita
Marlowe, an overly glamorous movie star. Twilight Time
Blu-ray Release Date: March, 2019
Barb Wire
BD - Pamela Anderson is
Barb Wire, the sexiest, toughest woman in Steel Harbor - a
city marked by chaos and crime - providing a home for a new kind
of mercenary. If you’ve got a problem, Barb Wire is the
solution. She’ll use any dangerous weapon (including her body)
to take what she wants, crossing the line for no man.
Blu-ray Release Date: November
30th, 2018
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